SM Class Day 4

Yesterday and today we had a performance class and although its not my thing it was much more enjoyable than I was expecting it to be. In a way it was really good for me maybe more than it was for the others as it took me really far outside of my comfort zone and into situations that im really not happy and uncomfortable being in and it wasnt as terrible as I thought it was going to be and I think that its been a confidence boost.

One thing that really surprised me was the Hamlet exercise as I have never had a problem remembering huge chunks of text as I can picture the page in my head and its just like reading from that but as soon as I had to make the tea the page just disappeared and i couldn’t remember anything which has never happened to me before so that really enforced the point about rehearsal props so that was good as it was kinda the point of the whole thing. I must admit I wasn’t really expecting to get much out of that exercise and so im really glad that i did.

Score reading is still going well which is good we did an exercise yesterday when we had to find our place in the score just from listening to the music which was really good as you were looking for pick up points which is useful when you are the DSM and I was really pleased that I could find my place quite quickly. I have also started to brush up on some basic French and Italian and I think that this has really been helpful to me as its a lot easier when you have even a basic understanding of the language to follow it.

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